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Officers of the 2nd Bn London Irish Rifles under the command of Lt Colonel Harry Rogers relax on the beach near Patti during September 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back Row: Capt. Pat Giles, Lt Michael Rowlette, Capt. Mervyn Davies, Major Gerald Fitzgerald, Capt. Seamus Samuels, Major Diarmond Conroy, Capt. Michael Tasker, Capt. Peter Grannell, Capt. James Maur-Sheil.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middle Row: Capt. Bill Westcott, Major Colin Gibbs, Capt. Ken Neely, Lt Col. Harry Rogers, Major Kevin O’Connor, Lt David Aitkenhead, Capt. Rodney Rockburn.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Front Row: Rev. Harry Graydon, Lt. Frank Lyness, Lt. Ken Lovatt, Lt. Ivan Yates, Lt. Tom. Osborne.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Officers of the 2nd Bn London Irish Rifles under the command of Lt Colonel Harry Rogers relax on the beach near Patti during September 1943. Back Row: Capt. Pat Giles, Lt Michael Rowlette, Capt. Mervyn Davies, Major Gerald Fitzgerald, Capt. Seamus Samuels, Major Diarmond Conroy, Capt. Michael Tasker, Capt. Peter Grannell, Capt. James Maur-Sheil. Middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":24588,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25032,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25026\/revisions\/25032"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}